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- Reposted by Academic ChatterGetting ready for the Perspectives on Scientific Error (PSE8) conference, taking place next week! @mzloteanu.bsky.social @mattansb.msbstats.info www.linkedin.com/posts/cody-n...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterA keeper moment from @academic-chatter.bsky.social #ilooklikeasurgeon
- Reposted by Academic Chatter@academic-chatter.bsky.social I have created an easy, simple to use and FREE tool [in Excel!] to help make grading and feedback processes quicker and more painless. I've so far managed to disseminate it to 5 universities in the UK and France. I am very happy to share this FREE tool with colleagues.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Academic ChatterLooking for papers on the magnitute of the impact that mitigating the impacts of the #anthropocene has on landscapes and #landscape changes. Any suggestions? #envhum @academic-chatter.bsky.social @landscaperesearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic Chatter✍️"It has undoubtedly been triggered by the financial difficulty that UK higher education finds itself in, but it is also indicative of unresolved issues in academic publishing." #AcademicSky #ScholComm
- Reposted by Academic ChatterScientists are perceived less positively in the UK since the pandemic amid greater uncertainty over researchers’ integrity and intentions, according to the latest results of a long-running poll ow.ly/q0MI50XZGSW
- Reposted by Academic Chatter“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI don't know about you, but Bluesky is one of the main ways I come across new papers outside of actively searching for them. This year I want to do a thread about an interesting #AMR paper I've read, one per month. Let's see if I can keep to this goal. #academicchatter #episky
- Reposted by Academic ChatterAn incredibly helpful bank of resources for anyone looking to write a book proposal (bookmarked for future reference). Thank you for your generosity @eve.gd
- Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterThere are a couple of 19c studies starter pack lists that might help!
- Reposted by Academic ChatterThe prospect of returning to research after over a decade is daunting. Not sure how often I will be posting but I will be haunting the Victorian and modernist niches of academic bluesky for inspiration and community - any recommendations for accounts to follow gratefully received!
- Reposted by Academic ChatterAcademic paywalls are really getting me down. I'm a working anthropologist, but my employers (college and tribe) are not universities, and so the research I'm able to do is severely limited. #academicChatter
- Reposted by Academic Chatter#AcademicChatter (I hope this is still a thing). I am looking for a 2025 article, in fact two of them, about new indices of evolutionary history of species. What I need are the species-to-pecies branches in years or something alike. #biology #conservation #evolution
- Reposted by Academic ChatterDownload our large database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 433 funding opportunities.
- Reposted by Academic Chatteraccidentally deleted 17 years of research data this morning luckily it was stored on a server with plenty of redundant backup, so we got last night's backup restored. But my anxiety level was a little elevated for a couple hours in between those two events...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterCan scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterToday, a week before the Christmas break, been asked to review a big project, and the deadline is the first week of January. Stop this nonsense. #academicchatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterIt's that time again. I'm seeking UK based #postdoc opportunities. I'm a multispecies ethnographer specialising in wildlife trade, distant multispecies linkages and loss in the Anthropocene. Mostly known as the civet lady. Please share 🙏 @ehrh.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterSurprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcadSky #AcademicSky #Assessment #ScientificPublishing #SocialScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterJust accidentally transferred a blot backwards - very important samples ran from the gel into the buffer rather than onto the membrane, lost forever 🥲 Experimental science keeping me humble all these years later 🧪 Anyone else wanna share their year’s best #sciencefail? @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI salute the honesty and courage of these authors, and I am sure we all share a collective shiver from knowing that we all could easily make (and maybe have made) similar analysis mistakes in our own work #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterListen, I know the peer review process is painfully broken. I just didn't realize the extent of brokenness. This paper has been under review for ~5 months. Any advice? Before anyone comes for me: Im not complaining without being part of the solution. I easily reviewed 20+ papers this past year.
- Reposted by Academic Chatter💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? ✍️Adam Arian #AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
- Reposted by Academic ChatterMy first post on here pretty much sums up what it's like to be a working Mum. Chicken pox has destroyed our week and now waiting for number 2 to inevitably get it 🫠 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #WIASN
- Reposted by Academic Chattermore than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem
- Reposted by Academic Chattercan’t fucking catch a breath make it stop
- Reposted by Academic Chatter🎉 Happy #LinguisticsDay! 🎉 CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & Cambridge UP are launching the #WhyLinguistics competition! 📹 Make a 1-min video on: 1️⃣ What linguistics is 2️⃣ Why it matters Prizes: £100 (BAAL), £100 (LAGB), £50 CUP voucher 🗓 Deadline 01.02.2026 📩 whylinguistics@lagb.org.uk
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterPublication plug! A while back, wrote this chapter (that, dare I say, I am quite proud of) on political parties and democracy building for a wonderful book edited by @democracytalk.bsky.social & Dinesha Samararatne, bringing together understudied case studies for a rare, comparative intervention.
- Reposted by Academic ChatterWow. This whole messy thing: @academic-chatter.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #HumanRights www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Academic Chatter"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good." lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI have become my former supervisor. Late to all meetings, distractable, perpetually annoyed by bureaucracy. Hopefully half as creative?? 😶🌫️ #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterConsider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterAfter graduating in Germany a few years ago, I applied to various Ivy League PhD programs. Spent much time & money on all those required texts, certificates, fees, the GRE etc. And now barely a week goes by when I'm not absolutely relieved that none of it worked out. Times change. #academicchatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterHello Bluesky! I’m José Ángel, a PhD student in Life Sciences at CICESE, Mexico. My research focuses on #microplastic pollution in top marine predators and its ecological implications. I’m here to share #research, connect with fellow scientists, and discuss marine conservation. 🌎🐾 #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterHow to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterRethinking #PhD supervision: creative, person-centred and decolonising approaches can transform outcomes for diverse researchers: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/reima... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Academic Chatter🗃️ From May: Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? #GoogleScholar #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterMy academic #ShadowCV includes, * unsuccessfully applying for way too many permanent jobs, * working at 5 universities, and nowhere tenure-tracks were available, or installed after me, or for others only, * too much time spent on trains working the laptop, * never had a contract longer then 3 years
- Reposted by Academic ChatterA friend's applying for a postdoc which expects an extensive publication record. I've seen grad students who focus on publishing over developing their diss & the 1st thing that goes out the window is quality. Why do we glorify & celebrate "productivity" over quality? @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterFrom our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash 👉Dogmatic approach to DEI ↪️ reactive resentment 🟰shutting the door in your face 👉Appreciative inquiry to DEI ↪️ opportunity to understand 🟰rolling out the welcome mat @academic-chatter.bsky.social #science 🧪
- Reposted by Academic ChatterSometimes being a supervisor, project leader, mentor, or professor can feel quite lonely. I miss my PhD and postdoc days — it was the sense of community, the great interactions, and the feeling of belonging to a family that kept me sane in academia @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicChatter
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI found out last week I didn't get a large grant I applied for in April (large to me, in any case). What's the first thing fellow academics do when they have a grant rejected (and the second, third etc.!) #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterI wish I had time to read this article 😉 "With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter". Conclusion: "No single method will solve the challenge of staying on top of the literature" @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterAI update for my summer online course: More than 50% of the class are on the list to be reported for AI use. 80% have at least 1 initial serious flag of AI use before review. (No detectors, just strategic assignment design & in-depth reviews) Are online courses dead? @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterPlease share! For Disability Pride Month, we are seeking neurodivergent academic faculty, instructors, & researchers at all levels to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their work experiences, coping strategies, & well-being. For info, go to: salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by Academic ChatterWhy are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social
- Reposted by Academic ChatterToday I spoke to a student w. a green card who was worried about that documentary had "political content" because of what's happened to student activists at Columbia etc. The subject? Life in a particular Jersey City neighbourhood. Chilling effect is real 😩 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky
- Reposted by Academic ChatterJust experienced the unique joy of having someone's discussion of my own research completely change my understanding of it #academicChatter
